Link Bait Hall of Fame

The Quit-Your-Day-Job Checklist

Who doesn’t want to quit their day job? Whoever they are, they’re in the minority, that’s for sure. That’s why this checklist of how one woman succeeded in making enough money to on her own to quit her day job got over 2,000 inbound links. The amazing thing is, this isn’t even the story in [...]

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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: Mock the Vote

Oh they’ve done it now. Comedy Central’s master tag-team satirist duo, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, have once again pushed the envelope and maybe, this time, could it be too far? Probably not. It rarely, if ever, is. But the sheer firestorm this New Yorker cover they did together, a parody of an earlier New [...]

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The Star Wars Culture

“Stars Wars“-inspired art. (and a TON of it) In terms of linkbait worthiness, need I say more? (OK, if I must…how about “Sexy Stormtrooper Bikin Shot”)?

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Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

Speed and convenience drives hits. Give people a way to save time without requiring too much change or effort on their part, and their yours for the taking. Especially when that time-saving boon involves so much drudgery as cleaning house. Learn how to clean my whole house in 19 minutes? Hell yeah! That’s the kind [...]

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40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops

Any site with an audience interested in Design (graphic designers, web designers, game designers, even architects) - and there are a LOT of them - have good reason to link to this piece. I don’t even use Photoshop, but this page of pretty CG water effects makes me want to learn how. The fact that [...]

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11 Pieces of Skateboard Furniture

This portfolio-of-sorts of…well 11 pieces of skateboard furniture - skateboard coffee table, skateboard bench (pictured), skateboard soji screen (called a “skateboard wall”, but I find soji more descriptive), skateboard loveseat - is fun to look at, for sure. Beyond that, however, the piece could serve a larger purpose to all you linbaiters out there, because [...]

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Does ideology trump facts? Studies say it often does.

I’m not all that sure this piece was intended to be link bait, but should that discount any the near-800 links it’s already attained. It at least seems plausible that writer Jonathan M. Gitlin knew he was going to pique many readers’ interest with such a prococative title. Controversy stirs debate which builds links. Also, [...]

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Do not try this at home! From a wing-walking granny to the washing machine Houdini, the world’s craziest stunts

Awesome eye candy, dude. Like, wow! A motorcyclist flying over an airplane, a man stuffed into and trying to escape from a washing machine that’s in operation and filling up with water, a grandmother taking a stroll across the wing of a biplane 1,000 feet off the ground. Now that’s what I call killer link bait. (Note [...]

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Sarah Palin Lover Revealed

For a magazine that’s comprised of pretty much 100% link bait, it seems almost redundant to acknowledge a National Enquirer piece as exceptional link bait. But if any piece can pull that off, it’s this one, on the contentious Republican VP candidate. Only a part of this scandalous story of Sarah Palin’s secret lover, the [...]

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Scifi’s Greatest Space Builders – And How We’ll Try to Copy Them

To many, science fiction is the face of what’s to come. And in many instances, it’s proven to be so. (Though thank God we’re not eating Soylent Green…yet. At least I hope not.) Architecture is just one of the industries already showing the “futuristic” design of fiction’s past. This thoughtful piece (no mere “list” post) [...]

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